Réflexions actuelles à propos d'un cas de diabète insulino-dépendant apparu à quatre ans

Abstract

As a result of what the author describes as an "explosive conjonction", insulino-dependent diabetes, a difficult illness to experience and to think about, can bring about an impoverishment of the psychic apparatus in the young child. The case of a child who developed insulino-dependent diabetes at the age of four, illustrates the fact that such an evolution is not at all inevitable.